News: still worry about how to write the correct node-casbin policy? Casbin online editor is coming to help!
node-casbin is a powerful and efficient open-source access control library for Node.JS projects. It provides support for enforcing authorization based on various access control models.
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https://casbin.org/docs/overview
# NPM npm install casbin --save # Yarn yarn add casbinNew a node-casbin enforcer with a model file and a policy file, see Model section for details:
// For Node.js: const { newEnforcer } = require('casbin'); // For browser: // import { newEnforcer } from 'casbin'; const enforcer = await newEnforcer('basic_model.conf', 'basic_policy.csv');Note: you can also initialize an enforcer with policy in DB instead of file, see Persistence section for details.
Add an enforcement hook into your code right before the access happens:
const sub = 'alice'; // the user that wants to access a resource. const obj = 'data1'; // the resource that is going to be accessed. const act = 'read'; // the operation that the user performs on the resource. // Async: const res = await enforcer.enforce(sub, obj, act); // Sync: // const res = enforcer.enforceSync(sub, obj, act); if (res) { // permit alice to read data1 } else { // deny the request, show an error }Besides the static policy file, node-casbin also provides API for permission management at run-time. For example, You can get all the roles assigned to a user as below:
const roles = await enforcer.getRolesForUser('alice');See Policy management APIs for more usage.
Casbin provides two sets of APIs to manage permissions:
- Management API: the primitive API that provides full support for Casbin policy management.
- RBAC API: a more friendly API for RBAC. This API is a subset of Management API. The RBAC users could use this API to simplify the code.
https://casbin.org/docs/supported-models
https://casbin.org/docs/adapters
https://casbin.org/docs/watchers
https://casbin.org/docs/role-managers
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